ADHD is the most common psychiatric disorder among Norwegian children. As
more children are diagnosed there has been an increase in both the use of medication
and media attention related to the disorder. The dominant ...

The 1950s were a period of great hope and promise for Ghana. Ghana became the first country south of the Sahara to become independent. Though the independence struggle was led by men they were aided by women. Women played ...

When predicting future emotions, i.e. engaging in affective
forecasting, people tend to overestimate the intensity and
duration of emotions, termed the impact bias. We
investigated the intensity component of affective ...

This study is an attempt at getting a better understanding of the relationship between the therapist's affect attunement and the patient's motivation, and find out to what degree the patient's experience of affect contributes ...

The present paper attempts to provide a better understanding of the concept of mentalizing, and its usefulness in psychotherapy. Allen, Fonagy and Bateman (2008) claim that mentalizing is the most fundamental common factor ...

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The aim of this paper was to test the goodness of fit of the Attitude – Social influence – self-Efficacy (ASE) model in explaining schoolchildren's intentions to eat fruit and their actual fruit intake in ...

The purpose of this thesis was to examine the relationship between interference of working memory and intrusive memories. Several studies show that interference of working memory reduces emotional intensity and vividness ...

This thesis presents selected works investigating the relation between leadership and morals.
Given the multitude of moral challenges and the grave consequences of moral transgressions
in military operations, we have ...

Physical fitness and mental health were assessed in 47 persons with substance
dependence and additional mental distress when they started on a training project.
After an average of 11 months in the project, the 36 remaining ...

The objective of this paper is to examine the relationship between
behavior problems in childhood and long-term consequences in
adulthood in the general population. This relationship is explored
from several perspectives ...

Attribution deals with how people understand and explain the reason for themselves and their surroundings. Attribution research has long sought to explain the elements that contribute to this process. What this research ...

This thesis seeks to examine and discuss youths' formation of meaning in modern society,
and the relationship between meaning formation and mental health. Humanisticexistential
theorists such as Kirk Schneider, Rollo May ...

This study investigates how clinical specialists experience and describe establishing a
working alliance with persons suffering from severe mental illnesses, while they are being
treated involuntarily. A qualitative ...

This literature review addresses studies of psychosocial outcomes for children and
adolescents in planned lesbian and gay families. A systematic literature search detected 16
relevant studies published between the years ...